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Ice Cream for Crow, Captain Beefheart's twelfth album, will surely attain the sacred status enjoyed by the rest of this beloved eccentric's musical canon, and it will do so without so much as a critical blink. So it should be: in the arid expanses of rock & roll, Beefheart's fecund gift for...
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The irregular rhythms, grating harmonies, and earthy, surreal
lyrics of Captain Beefheart's songs and his blues-inflected
seven-and-a-half-octave vocals (or, depending on who you believe,
three-octave; the voice is impressive no matter what) suggest a
near-chaotic improvised blend of Delta blues, avant-garde jazz,
20th-century classical music, and rock & roll. Actually,
Beefheart's repertoire is a...
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